Gayle Harouff

Gayle Joyce (Brown) Harouff was born August 4,1948. Gayle was the third child of Elmer R. and Evelyne J. (Hicks) Brown. She passed away February 21, 2013 in Wray.

During her childhood she lived in a number of places with her family. She went to Fairview country school where her own Grandmother Hicks waas her teacher. She attended Laird School and graduated from eighth grade in 1962. She then moved onto the Wray High School and graduated in 1966.

She married her high school sweetheart, Jon Harouff, son of Dale and Jenon (Armagost) Harouff in November of 1966. To this union were born J’onna K. Harouff (Frost) in April of 1968 and Daniel J. Harouff in February of 1971.

She enjoyed all forms of outdoor activities. Working in her flower beds, gardening, arrowhead hunting, deer hunting, spending time outside with her kids, grandchildren and pets. She WORKED!! While in Texas she worked at a cafe. In Colorado, Kansas and Nebraska she helped her father and father-in-law with cattle and farming. She always seemed to find or make time to cook large meals, sew the family clothing and have some craft project in the works.

She worked at the Wray Gambles store, the Wray Museum, managed Bob and Mac’s Pawn Shop and Bob and Patty’s Used Cars. In her spare time she volunteered for the V.I.T.A. (Volunteer Income Tax Assistance) for 23 years. Gayle also became a public notary. She worked as a cook at the 55 and Over Club for a number of years. She also cleaned houses and other services for the local senior citizens for over 30 years. One of her great goals was donating 20 gallons of blood. She made it close to 16 gallons.

On top of all of this she was Jon’s “right Hand” in so many of his activities. Whether it was cutting firewood, corn harvest, gun shows or making up craft items for craft shows with him, she was right in the thick of it with him. She was a hardworking, fun loving, outgoing wife, mother, grandmother, great grandmother, sister, daughter and friend. The world could use a lot more people llke her.

Preceding her in death are her father, Elmer Brown, sister, Lynette Brown and grandson, Edward James Harouff.

She leaves to mourn her passing her mother, Evelyne Brown, husband, Jon D. Harouff, daughter, J’onna K. and husband, Rusty Frost and her sons, Joe Zuege and Kelly Carman of Haigler, NE daughter, Jelyne Carman and Jaden of Nebraska and Jon Stone and Aaron Stone of Texas, their son, Daniel J. Harouff and wife, Jill with their children, John and Dale Clark and Peighton, Sydney and Brinlee Harouff of Tonkawa, OK, her brothers, Keneth and wife, Mariela Brown of Twentynine Palms, CA, Randy and his wife, Helen of Cushing, OK and Dennis Brown and wife, Olga of Atwater, CA, sister, Pam Johnson and husband, Delbert of Otis, and sister, Vicki Brown of Colby, KS along with numerous aunts, uncles, nieces, nephews, cousins, and huge host of friends.

A Celebration of Life and Receiving of Family and Friends was held Saturday, March 2, 2013, at  the Eckley Community Center from 2:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. Memorials maybe made to the Hospice of the Plains, P.O. Box 365, Wray, Colorado 80758 or the David Walsh Cancer Center, 615 Fairhurst Street, Sterling, Colorado 80751. Spellman-Schmidt Funeral Home was in charge of arrangements.